Herlinde Koelbl took twenty-three portraits of Angela Merkel. The setting was always the same: a white wall, a chair, and no instructions from the photographer. The photos document Angela Merkel's ascent from "Kohl's girl" to the world's most powerful female head of government.
Angelika Platen's art of taking portraits demonstrates her ability to depict the essence of an artist in connection with their body of work in one single picture.
Emil Kräß worked at the Minster's stonemasons' lodge in Ulm for 38 years.
In November 2024 the Minster's longest-serving stonemason put down his mallet and retired. Admittedly, this does not keep him from continuing to use hammer and chisel. Besides his job the stonemason from Holzschwang developed his very own artistic way of working with sandstone and limestone.
Plants are communicating with each other, they are exchanging information, they are capable to learn and they even follow mobility strategies. Scientists like e.g. the behavioural biologist Monica Gagliano or the plant neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso are convinced that plants do possess subtle skills in actively influencing their environment. Plants live in a cosmos of interconnection, relations, dependences and mutual support.
Kathrin Linkersdorff's fascinating large-format photographs are located somewhere between art and science. In her experiments, which are at the interface with botany and microbiology, she analyses the nature and structure of plants. She purposely sets off disintegration processes that reveal the inner structure of blossoms in order to capture them in photographic stagings.
Globalisation, consumerism, and the resulting climate change are the main causes for the disappearance of the rainforest's precious ecosystem. And this also contributes to the disconnection of humanity from the virgin forest.
What do we connect with the term wilderness? What does a picture…
The traces people left on the Minster Square date back more than four millennia. A long time before Ulm, the Minster, or the Minster Square even existed. Some of it was discovered during the excavations for the foundations of the Stadthaus. The exhibition in the basement includes selected finds, slide shows, and short films. Like all our exhibitions it is open daily, free admission.
